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adjective·B1·10 letters
previously owned, not new
Example sentence
He bought a second-hand bike to save money.
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Give me a sentence with "second-hand".
He bought a second-hand bike to save money.
That works. Now tell me where you last heard "second-hand".
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Other B1 words
- abandonleave behind, give up
- ablehaving the skill to do
- abnormalnot normal, unusual
- aboardon a ship, train, or plane
- aborigineoriginal native inhabitant, esp. Australian
- absencestate of being away
- absentnot present, away
- absolutecomplete, total
- absolutelycompletely, totally
- absorbsoak up, take in
- abstractexisting as an idea, not physical
- abundancea very large quantity
Levels come from the CEFR-J Vocabulary Profile v1.5 by Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and the Octanove Vocabulary Profile C1/C2 by Octanove Labs, CC BY-SA 4.0 Meanings and example sentences are written by VocaFlare.
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